Person
de Beuzeville, Wilfred Alexander Watt (1884 - 1954)
- Born
- 13 February 1884
Bombala, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 28 March 1954
Kiama, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Botanical collector and Forester
Summary
Wilfred de Beuzeville joined the New South Wales Department of Forestry in 1912, eventually becoming a divisional officer in 1938 and head of the forest ecology branch in 1947. He also collected for the Herbarium of New South Wales and wrote several works on forestry. From 1930 to 1933 his services were offered to the CSIR Division of Forest Products.
Details
Born Bombala, New South Wales, 13 February 1884. Died Kiama, New South Wales, 28 March 1954. Grazier, Tumut 1900-12, Department of Forestry (Forestry Commission from 1916) 1912-48, forest assessor 1915-20, assistant forester, Tumbarumba 1920-25, senior forester, Tumut 1925-28, senior forester, Sydney 1928-38, divisional officer 1938-47, head, forest ecology branch 1947-48, work in Australia for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on the selection of eucalypts suitable for planting in Ethiopia after his retirement. The snow gum Eucalyptus pauciflora spp. debeuzevillei was named after him.
Chronology
- 1919
- Award - Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1920
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus dalrympleana Maiden. Beuzeville collected the type material
- 1920
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus debeuzeville Maiden was named in honour of Beuzeville
- 1924
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus badjensis Beuzev. & M.B.Welch. Beuzeville collected the type material
- 1934
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus lindleyana DC. var. stenophylla Blakely. Beuzeville collected the type material
- 1934
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus benthamii Maiden & Cambage var. dorrigoensis Blakely. Beuzeville collected the type material
- 1939
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus crenulata Blakely & Beuzev.
Related entries
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Wilfred Alexander Watt de Beuzeville - Records, 1808 - 1971, ML MSS 2174; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Book Sections
- Carron, L.T., 'De Beuzeville, Wilfred Alexander Watt (1884-1954), forester' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 265-266, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/de-beuzeville-wilfred-alexander-watt-5936. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5643145. Details
- 'De Beuzeville, W A W (18840213-19540328)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-638447. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 February 2018
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